[gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing

[Pingveno]

Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have 
read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this 
being the boot partition.

Here's the message I get when I run "chkdsk /f":
<output>
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) Y

This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts.
</output>

Yet when I restart, there is no unusual lag in the start up (which would 
be necessary to scan an entire hard drive). I also continue getting the 
message, upon running chkdsk without /f, that I need to do chkdsk /f. Weird.

-Pingveno

Grimaldy Soto wrote:
> I suposed that if the partition is in use it's because is the main
> partition, if not you can use the /x option for chkdsk if will force a
> dismount, anyway why you no resize the partition with a partition
> manager like partition magic.
>
> Its better and faster and course lets dangerous that making inside from
> linux.
>
> On 11/12/05, *Pingveno* < pingveno@×××××××.net
> <mailto:pingveno@×××××××.net>> wrote:
>
>     I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new
>     laptop. As
>     recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using
>     Knoppix & Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about
>     accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's redundant).
>     After a little bit of Google searching, I discovered I needed to use
>     chkdsk on Windows with the /f switch to fix the errors. Easy. Of course,
>     chkdsk alerted me that it can't modify a running NTFS system. Okay, so I
>     do what it recommends to me: let the checking be run after a reboot.
>
>     None of this is exactly extraordinary. However, there is the slight
>     problem that chkdsk never actually runs at start up. No bueno. Any
>     tricks to con it into working?
>
>     -Pingveno
>
>     P.S. This is a Thinkpad T43
>
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